tape

IPA: tˈeɪp

noun

  • Flexible material in a roll with a sticky surface on one or both sides; adhesive tape.
  • Thin and flat paper, plastic or similar flexible material, usually produced in the form of a roll.
  • Finishing tape, stretched across a track to mark the end of a race.
  • Magnetic or optical recording media in a roll; videotape or audio tape.
  • (informal, by extension) Any video or audio recording, regardless of the method used to produce it.
  • (informal) An unthinking, patterned response triggered by a particular stimulus.
  • (trading, from ticker tape) The series of prices at which a financial instrument trades.
  • (ice hockey) The wrapping of the primary puck-handling surface of a hockey stick
  • (printing, historical) A strong flexible band rotating on pulleys for directing the sheets in a printing machine.
  • (possible, obsolete, UK, slang) Liquor, alcoholic drink, especially gin or brandy. (Especially in prison slang or among domestic servants and women.)
  • Clipping of red tape (“time-consuming bureaucratic procedures”). [The binding tape once used for holding important documents together.]

verb

  • To bind with adhesive tape.
  • To record, originally onto magnetic tape.
  • (informal, passive voice) To understand, figure out.
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Examples of "tape" in Sentences

  • The man taped the box tightly.
  • Grind down the wire to the tape.
  • The sticker is on the top of the tape.
  • The politician escaped the embarrassment of her leaked audio tape.
  • The contestants on location and in studio are taped live during the taping.

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